About the Superfund Redevelopment Initiative

Redevelopment at the Site

Galveston Bay is a National Estuary and a major fishery. EPA’s cleanup plan addressed sludge waste, contaminated soil and groundwater. Potentially responsible parties completed all remedial/cleanup activities at the Site on December 13, 2017. The site is not currently in use. the PRPs have determined that the land be transferred to an environmental non-profit organization. If the land cannot be transferred, the land use will be consistent with a natural preservation or conservation area.

Activity and Use Limitations

At this site, activity and use limitations that EPA calls institutional controls are in place. Institutional controls play an important role in site remedies because they reduce exposure to contamination by limiting land or resource use.
They also guide human behavior. For instance, zoning restrictions prevent land uses – such as residential uses – that are not consistent with the level of cleanup. For more background, see Institutional Controls.

The 2009 ROD documents that the future use of this Site will be as a preserve or conservancy. The Malone Cooperating Parties (MCP) purchased the Site property from the Site owner and has agreed that the Site would be a preserve or that the local Scenic Galveston Conservancy group would have first right of refusal in accepting the property and maintaning it as a preserve. The Site will have several restrictions documented in a Restrictive Covenant, which will follow the land deed.